Bail For Your Life

My family has a cabin in Fernie, BC, that we go to in winter and in summer. About a thirty minute drive from our door step is a lake called "Lake Koocanusa". It is a dammed lake that fills up at the start of every summer, and is drained at the end of the summer. We have a boat, and have had one for a while. I slalom, wakeboard, wakesurf, and tube behind it. Tubing is alot of fun because the boat pulls you along on an inflatable floaty tube, really fast! Normally, other water sports like the water to be calm and flat, but for tubing, it is best when choppy and bumpy. Anyways, one day last year, we were waterskiing and wakeboarding when we saw dark storm clouds at then end of the lake. The water started to get rough from the storm, so my brother and I decided to tube back to the boat launch, which was about a 10 minute boat ride down the lake, into the storm. So we get behind the boat, started it up, and headed down the lake. The water got increasingly more and more rough as we went along, so the fun and scariness also increased. Eventually, we were hitting 4-5 foot waves on this little tube. My dad wanted to get off of the water, so he started to speed up. My brother and I were catching air off of every wave. When the boat launch came in sight, a few boats drove in front of us and their wakes collided and created a massive wave, headed our way! Combined with the stormy wind, already huge waves, and these new ones, a 6-7 foot wave was charging towards our tube! My brother, being 4 years younger than me, started to freak out because "He didn't wanna die!" So we had to bail for our lives, and dove off of the tube through the wave to safety. It was a good thing we did too, because the tube was submerged under the water for a good 30-40 seconds, and we couldve been hurt badly! Now we have learned our lesson, and stay off of the water when storms hit.

Blog #6 Little Kids

My family and I were visiting my cousins in vancouver last summer, and we were very bored. We all decided that going to the mall would be a fun activity that would be suitable for all ages, since my cousins were aged five and seven, and my brothers and I were thirteen, sixteen, and eighteen. When we got there, we went shopping for about one and a half hours as a big group. It was approaching lunch time,and we were all getting pretty hungry. As we journeyed over to the food court, my brothers and I wanted to have Kentucky Fried Chicken, but my Mom and Aunt wanted to have Quiznos. My older brother Robert and I were put in charge of taking care of our little cousins. To make sure we didnt lose them, they (little cousins) wanted to hold our hands. Really badly. So we played along, and started swinging our hands back and forth. This got them very excited! They kept running back and forth around us, trying to make us swing our hands with them! We ended up getting Taco Bell instead but it was still  fun. Now every time I see my cousins, they run up to me, grad my hand, and start swigning as hard as they can.

Bill White

Blog #5 Christmas

Winter is my favorite time of year, and it has been for my entire life. I especially love christmas, because I get to go skiing, play hockey, eat lots of good food, and not go to school for 2 weeks. My favorite part of christmas is the break from school that comes along with it. My family owns a cabin in Fernie, BC, and we go there for the entire break. This year, we are going to Whistler for a ski trip during the first few days off of school. Skiing is the thing that I love doing most in my life, so this holiday is going to be a paradise. During last year's break, I went skiing every single day at Fernie Alpine Resort, for a total of 17 days straight. That helped contribute to my season total of 62 days on the hill! Hopefully this christmas will be just as good or better than last year!

Blog #4 Laughing

I laugh alot, sometimes too often. I could name countless times when I've laughed so hard that I couldnt breathe and/or talk. The most recent one was during my hockey game last night. One of the weaker players on the other team was trying to"chirp" me, and it wasnt going to well for him. Next play, I decided to lay a bodycheck on him. He literally did a backflip and landed on his stomach. Since my league is non-physical, the ref blew the whistle to call a penalty. I started to skate towards the penalty box, but then he(the ref) motioned for the player I had just demolished for a penalty! He called an interference call, which means that he got in my way. I laughed very hard at this, but then had to focus back in on the game.  I did end up getting kicked out of this game, and we still ended up losing though, 5-3.

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand (200) Words.

This is a picture of the logo for Fernie Alpine Resort, a ski mountain in south-eastern British Colombia. My family and I have a cabin there and we travel to it frequently. Fernie is best known for its "Legendary Powder", as it says on the logo. One ski day last year there was one hundred and seventeen centimeters of fresh snow in one night! That was definitely the happiest skiing day of my life.

I am also on the freestyle team that runs out of Fernie,called FFSC, or the fernie freestyle ski club. I compete in provincial, national , and international events against kids that are from age fifteen to eighteen. Skiing is my fvorite thing to do in my life. I could ski everyday of my life and never get bored. When I graduate from high school, I would like to take a year off and travel around the world to ski. This picture represents the place that helped grow my love for skiing. If I am not able to travel around and go skiing, I would just live at my cabin and ski everyday. Last season, I skiied 45 days at fernie!

As I said before, this picture represents the things I lovemost in my life, and it is a very important place to me.

Blog #2 Money

On a warm summer day back when I was about 10 years old, My family and I were visiting my grandparents at their house in Vernon, BC. We didn't have any plans for the day so we decided to visit a water-park nearby named Atlantis. I had never been to a water-park before so I was very excited! when we got there, we enjoyed the water-slides, pools, and lazy rivers. Near the end of the day, my pops and I were sitting in the main hot tub, when I noticed something floating by my feet underwater. I reached down and pulled it out of the water. My eyes opened wide and jaw dropped as it was a soaking-wet $50 bill! I excitedly showed my dad and he could not believe his eyes either. We quickly realized that they were more underwater treasures and scoured around the hot tub. After our little scavenger hunt, we had collected $100! I was flabbergasted as I was only 10 and had never seen this much money before. We took the bills back to my grandparents house and dried them out, and then a few weeks later, I deposited $100 of free money into my bank account. This has made water-park's very high in my "fun books" and hopefully it will happen again someday!

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Blog #1 About Me

My name is William James White, but I am also known as Bill, Billy or Will. I am 16 years young and I live in south Calgary. I passed my drivers test and got my liscence on July 31, but I do not have a car right now so I drive my family's minivan. I was born in New West Minister, which is right beside Vancouver in the lower mainland. My family moved out to Calgary in 2000, and I have lived in the same house ever since then. In the wintertime, I play hockey and freestyle ski. I have played very high level hockey since I was 3 years old. This past season I had to switch to rec hockey (non-contact) because I had the fortune of getting 3 concussions. I ski out of the Fernie freestyle ski club, which lets me go to many competitions to places like Lake Louise, Sunshine Village, Red mountain, COP, Panorama and many others. This past season was my first competing, and I placed 2nd in provincial-regional slopestyle, and 13th in a North American Junior Freeski Tour event. I skied a total of 58 days last season, and it is obviously one of my favorite hobbies. During the summertime I play golf, wakeboard and mountain bike. I improved alot in all of those sports, as now I can break 80 in golf, clear the wake/360 while wakeboarding. and make it down expert level runs very fast while mountain biking. This is my 4th school I have been attending since kindergarten. I went to Fish Creek Elementary from K-6, Midsun from grades 7-9 , Centennial High in grade 10, and now CA in grade 11. I have made honours every single term since grade 7, while recieving honours with distinction 4 times. The drive to this school takes me over an hour each way,but I believe that it is worth it.

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